There's a word in the article headline conveniently omitted from the Slashdot headline. That word is "reportedly"
Seriously, guys, can't we get any kind of standards here?
That aside, this is a pretty stupid move. If this news is accurate, I don't doubt a lot of users are going to be pretty vocal.
On the other hand, if they had made it work, but be horribly broken in the presence of an ATI/AMD graphics cad, they could easily blame it on something completely opaque to the user and get away with it. (cf. manufacturer graphics drivers on Linux.)
For your task, I would probably just build an exact duplicate of the "real" machine and sync them nightly. Always keep in mind that if you have no way to quickly recover from a disaster, you don't actually have a backup.
Of course, the only problem with that is if you have a hardware failure on-site, the backup, being built of the same thing, is probably going to fail about the same time.
All color movies and photographs up now are recorded for a audience of tricromats. Watching movies, seeing your family pictures, browsing the internet etc would probably look poor to tetracromats.
So? Glasses to filter out all but visible light (today's visible light) should be trivial. Just like those blue & red 3D glasses.
Some BIOS have a "Halt on..." option. The settings are something like "no keyboard", "no video", "all errors", "all but keyboard", and "no errors". Setting it to "no errors" will cause it to not halt on a no-KB or no-video error.
Utterly destroying a competitor which, although vocal, represents only a single-digit threat to their market share, seems like a rather irrational expenditure of resources.
Communications is a racket. Is it any wonder that Ma Bell was broken up, and yet her children have mostly eaten each other and are each as big or bigger than she was, in under 30 years? Yet this is the industry that cries poverty and "we can't afford it" when the idea of upgrading to a REAL (I mean Japanese or S Korean style) broadband network is put on the table. Of course not. They don't give a shit about providing service, they just care about their balance sheet and whatever other company they can swallow.
Why is it that Street View is OK but CCTV in Britain is bad?
Because unlike CCTV, Google doesn't watch you.
They take one still every few feet. Basically the same as a person driving by. Britains cameras watch you. ALL THE TIME. It's like someone hovering over you 24/7.
"the Green Giant has always been Shrek, not the big guy picking vegetables"? What are these people on? Shrek came out in 2001. Are they saying that we (yes, I am this precise age) never saw or heard a Green Giant commercial? I sure have.
I also take umbrage with some of their other points, like "Cable television systems have always offered telephone service and vice versa."
We used to have NYNEX (the New England Baby Bell) for telephone. (Hell, I think I still have a NYNEX umbrella somewhere...) TV was from an antenna on the roof. (It only came down when we had our hose re-roofed, about three years ago.) Internet access, when we got it, was dial-up (see NYNEX).
They have been preparing for the arrival of HDTV all their lives.
Nnnnnnnno. We only just got an HDTV a year or two ago. I'd hardly heard of it before that.
Nobody has been able to make a deposit in the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI).
I'll give them this one. I hadn't even heard of it.
There was a patch that enabled mouse support... But all it did was map the mouse XY to the stick's XY.
Personally, I wish that more console games allowed button remapping...
I prefer to name my machines after Pokémon.
Seriously, though, I go for something descriptive. My machine here at home is named sheeettin-kubuntu (because it's mine, and it runs kubuntu, and I don't use the hostname that often).
At school, they use a room-ID system, e.g. the first in room 210 is 210-01. (The server I administered in my computer tech class was named "poopserver", both because I needed a name during setup, and the server ended up serving crap like Counter-Strike, Gameboy Advance ROMs, and Dragonball Z episodes.)
How about being inspired by the actual record of what people did? Are you actually more inspired by fiction than by real life?
Most people are. See influences of "Star Trek", etc.
But yes, some people are inspired by what others have done. For example, I just finished rereading October Sky, in which a boy is inspired by Wernher von Braun to become a rocket engineer (he went on to work for NASA).
how do you bootstrap this? (Ie, why not just block downloads of the application itself, or arrest everyone who does download it?)
Get it before the government blocks it. If enough people get it, it'll be up in too many places for them to kill.
Besides, even if the government blocks the official site ahead of time, it will still be redistributed by people outside the block, and the above situation will occur.
Maybe if I could think of a way for a fully-formed planet to escape its system intact. It'd take a damn heavy body and an incredibly unlikely interaction.
(And by the way, I think if a planet's axis made a radical change, the poles would change as well. But I'm not sure.)
So if you want better and cheaper service, your only (unrealistic) choice is to leave the country.
Or you could, y'know, compete. (Competition? In the United States? Nonsense!)
I realize starting your own telecom probably isn't going to happen, but hey, they did...
Yeah, that was the first thing I thought of when I was this, too. I used one installation on a field trip to the local Air National Guard base (Pease ANGB). It was equipped with one M16, one M9, and one shotgun (all tethered to compressed air), as well as several Bluetooth-based M4s. (Unfortunately, the last people to use the M4s didn't plug them back in, so we couldn't use them.) All simulation weapons were converted from actual service weapons.
You could use it with pre-generated scenarios (a string of live-action video clips)--one scenario was a fight in a bar--or a dynamic 3D environment (very simple graphics, don't get excited). The entire thing was controlled from a PC. (Unfortunately for us, the sergeant in control neglected to mention we could give instructions to the video (e.g. "drop the weapon"), and the other two people ended up opening fire on an old man.:(
Oh, and it's called the FATS system. The company's site is here. The Bluetooth-based system was called BlueFire.
I'm still waiting for one of these. It'd be incredibly useful, because I don't have any ad blocker on my DS browser.
Either that or a third-party firmware that fits on a v5/v6 WRT54G and ISN'T DD-WRT, because DD-WRT is only marginally better than the stock firmware.
It's against the law to infringe copyrighted material. It's against the law to aid somebody else breaking the law. File sharing therefor is Against The Law.
It's against the law to commit murder by stabbing someone to death. It's against the law to aid somebody else breaking the law. Knives, therefore, are illegal.
See the flaw? File sharing is not inherently bad. Using it to infringe upon copyrights is.
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There's a word in the article headline conveniently omitted from the Slashdot headline. That word is "reportedly"
Seriously, guys, can't we get any kind of standards here?
That aside, this is a pretty stupid move. If this news is accurate, I don't doubt a lot of users are going to be pretty vocal.
On the other hand, if they had made it work, but be horribly broken in the presence of an ATI/AMD graphics cad, they could easily blame it on something completely opaque to the user and get away with it. (cf. manufacturer graphics drivers on Linux.)
Or Apple could quit being control freaks and just make iTunes work with a USB mass-storage device.
Of course, the only problem with that is if you have a hardware failure on-site, the backup, being built of the same thing, is probably going to fail about the same time.
So? Glasses to filter out all but visible light (today's visible light) should be trivial. Just like those blue & red 3D glasses.
Personally, I prefer COMPLETE BULLSHIT
(Reference, for those who don't read MS Paint Adventures. You should.)
Some BIOS have a "Halt on..." option. The settings are something like "no keyboard", "no video", "all errors", "all but keyboard", and "no errors". Setting it to "no errors" will cause it to not halt on a no-KB or no-video error.
Apple was a single-digit threat once too.
You severely overestimate the average user. They'll run anything with the promise of, say, porn.
Pretty sure they're stored on the Kindle.
Welcome to capitalism.
Actually, you can just put your ZIP code in the field on the left. That'll take you right to your local forecast.
Because unlike CCTV, Google doesn't watch you.
They take one still every few feet. Basically the same as a person driving by. Britains cameras watch you. ALL THE TIME. It's like someone hovering over you 24/7.
I also take umbrage with some of their other points, like "Cable television systems have always offered telephone service and vice versa."
We used to have NYNEX (the New England Baby Bell) for telephone. (Hell, I think I still have a NYNEX umbrella somewhere...) TV was from an antenna on the roof. (It only came down when we had our hose re-roofed, about three years ago.) Internet access, when we got it, was dial-up (see NYNEX).
Nnnnnnnno. We only just got an HDTV a year or two ago. I'd hardly heard of it before that.
I'll give them this one. I hadn't even heard of it.
There was a patch that enabled mouse support... But all it did was map the mouse XY to the stick's XY.
Personally, I wish that more console games allowed button remapping...
I prefer to name my machines after Pokémon.
Seriously, though, I go for something descriptive. My machine here at home is named sheeettin-kubuntu (because it's mine, and it runs kubuntu, and I don't use the hostname that often).
At school, they use a room-ID system, e.g. the first in room 210 is 210-01. (The server I administered in my computer tech class was named "poopserver", both because I needed a name during setup, and the server ended up serving crap like Counter-Strike, Gameboy Advance ROMs, and Dragonball Z episodes.)
Most people are. See influences of "Star Trek", etc.
But yes, some people are inspired by what others have done. For example, I just finished rereading October Sky, in which a boy is inspired by Wernher von Braun to become a rocket engineer (he went on to work for NASA).
Acting like a heater?
Get it before the government blocks it. If enough people get it, it'll be up in too many places for them to kill.
Besides, even if the government blocks the official site ahead of time, it will still be redistributed by people outside the block, and the above situation will occur.
Maybe if I could think of a way for a fully-formed planet to escape its system intact. It'd take a damn heavy body and an incredibly unlikely interaction.
(And by the way, I think if a planet's axis made a radical change, the poles would change as well. But I'm not sure.)
Or you could, y'know, compete. (Competition? In the United States? Nonsense!)
I realize starting your own telecom probably isn't going to happen, but hey, they did...
Yeah, that was the first thing I thought of when I was this, too. I used one installation on a field trip to the local Air National Guard base (Pease ANGB). It was equipped with one M16, one M9, and one shotgun (all tethered to compressed air), as well as several Bluetooth-based M4s. (Unfortunately, the last people to use the M4s didn't plug them back in, so we couldn't use them.) All simulation weapons were converted from actual service weapons.
:(
You could use it with pre-generated scenarios (a string of live-action video clips)--one scenario was a fight in a bar--or a dynamic 3D environment (very simple graphics, don't get excited). The entire thing was controlled from a PC. (Unfortunately for us, the sergeant in control neglected to mention we could give instructions to the video (e.g. "drop the weapon"), and the other two people ended up opening fire on an old man.
Oh, and it's called the FATS system. The company's site is here. The Bluetooth-based system was called BlueFire.
Or maybe they're just answering Twitter's question of "What are you doing?".
I'm still waiting for one of these. It'd be incredibly useful, because I don't have any ad blocker on my DS browser. Either that or a third-party firmware that fits on a v5/v6 WRT54G and ISN'T DD-WRT, because DD-WRT is only marginally better than the stock firmware.
Moot says it was a DDoS. Truth, or dastardly plot? YOU DECIDE.
It's against the law to commit murder by stabbing someone to death. It's against the law to aid somebody else breaking the law. Knives, therefore, are illegal. See the flaw? File sharing is not inherently bad. Using it to infringe upon copyrights is.